Since Asheville’s tie for first in 2009 with Portland, Ore. the title has helped attract national attention to the area for its thriving craft beer scene.

The local industry continues to boom, with New Belgium and Sierra Nevada brewing companies in the process of building major production facilities and several smaller breweries slated to open in coming months. However, Asheville garnered significantly less votes in this year’s poll than it did in 2012. Here’s the list of the top ten craft beer cities that registered in the polls:

As a local, I will shed no tears that Asheville’s biggest claim to fame is no longer beer. And if losing “beer city” status leads to losing tourism (which I doubt), then this town has bigger problems to address than how to win an on-line poll, OR how to brew more/better beer.

Yeah, that ‘Feral’ video was tres mal awful. I want my time back for watching it. We know they are a local comedy troupe (and comedy is supposed to be “edgy”?), but why not just work for the Aloft greeting troupe on the ground floor for tips for making a video like that?

Thank you Wainscott for showing why this town needs to take a step back for wanting to be the indie hipster/second home capital of the world. I’ve heard something about a living wage- but don’t tell your friends.

Or maybe Ashevillians should actually read “The Great Gatsby” before they SEE IT IN 3-D!!! Fitzgerald drank at the Grove Park and created character studies of annoying noveau riche leeches from Grove Park archetypes long before this poster pointed it out.

Sadly, we can drink with the best here but our self-imposed economy limits our funds to sample our own local brews.

The “Beer City” thing was never real anyway. It always felt like a cheap marketing tool. I’m proud of this town for many reasons, but towns like Portland don’t need to win a title that they know they already own.